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This post was inspired by a discussion on the Media Show on SAFM this morning, where results from the latest research report on Women's Voice in Media were discussed by Lizette Khan, Gender Links and Krivani Pillay. You can find a Storify of the key discussion points that were tweeted here. These specific tweets planted the…

Facebook announced in June that there are now 2 billion monthly active users on this social network site! On the back of this announcement, we analyse the performance of the African continent on Facebook in this post. Facebook monthly active users in Africa We analyse Facebook monthly active users in Africa based on two comparative…

Facebook's F8 Developer Conference took place a week ago. The one big and bold statement of the conference that stood out for me was the following: The statement above was made by Regina Dugan, the VP of Engineering, explaining that 60 engineers are hard at work developing a brain-computer interface that will allow for direct translation of…

Facebook has well over 1.49 billion active users in the whole world, and 120 million of the users are from Africa. It is estimated that more than 80% of the users in Africa access the social media platform from their mobile phones. There is a steady growth of internet connection across the whole continent and Facebook…

It is safe to say that by now we all know that social media is an outlet that allows people from different nations to connect and share ideas, voice opinions and be familiar with current events. The success of social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have taken over the world with millions of…

Social media mentions about the late #NelsonMandela have done epic stats numbers since his death. See the numbers here >>> @PrezenceDigital created a video about how #Madiba would be best represented if he was a "born free". The video combines all the social media platforms of this day in telling the story of all the…